Executive awarded €180,000 for ‘no fault’ dismissal

The government has nonetheless been content to find €500m for the French arms industry. And the opportunity cost in delayed infrastructure?

The Beckett Class has thermal imaging in its fire control optic system, so the statement the Yeats is "not equipped with night-time optics" is factually inaccurate.

I kept meaning to get the flu jab I've just not had time. Last time I did was when it was offered at work. The govt could require all workplaces with more than fifty staff to have a flu jab clinic on site or mandate inoculation leave.

Dublin's Henry St in 1954 as depicted in Dublin Opinion.

The 1-2 platoon strength force proposed by General Collins would be quickly run out of supplies. The army could have armour on the scene within hours and set up artillery at leisure. Staggeringly low sortie rates for aircraft deploying from Russia, vulnerable to manpads in Irish service.

At least two of those pixels are a bright yellow

‘He’s a posh Belvedere boy’, Aer Lingus pilot tells WRC about co-pilots use of word apologies

Just in case anyone hasn't mentioned, if the Russians sent a company or two of light infantry to take over Shannon Airport, they would suffer brutal casualties and the rest would be arrested.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

People Travelling To US Told To Delete Comments Criticising Thin Skinned Cunt https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/04/14/people-travelling-to-us-told-to-delete-comments-criticising-thin-skinned-cunt/

The winner of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest has handed back their trophy because of Israel’s continued participation. Nemo won the 2024 edition on behalf of Switzerland but today said that they “no longer feels this trophy belongs on my shelf”. jrnl.ie/6901023

Sorry but I'm fully committed to secularism with the odd foray into pagan aesthetic and ritual Europe. I think this "fundamentally Christian civilisation" thing is probably laying it on a bit thick for a set of values that had barely sunk in by the I'm late 19th century.

"for Ireland" -- but which Ireland?

Heard about a three-hour commute via the N11 this morning.

Great to see the OPW getting out there with comms on social media warning against getting too close to deer in the Park.

I'm too old for the Twelve Pubs of Christmas and it's not just because drinking that amount of alcohol would make me hungover until 2047 (it would). It's because, at the age of 36, if I get a seat in a pub *in December* and you come over and tell me that we have to go somewhere else, it's over.

We are barely 30 days removed from Housing Minister James Browne saying he believes he can end the housing crisis in the next four years

The problem isn't, of course, the comms people who commissioned this crazy nonsense. The problem is that nobody anywhere in the Department of Housing with eyes on this had the wit or instinct to shoot it down.

“A very bad joke”, “embarrassing”, “patronising”, “dystopian”, and “tone deaf” are some of the words that have been used to describe a video from the Department of Housing advising people on moving back in with their parents. www.thejournal.ie/department-o...

The navy already had some of the best available military technology to track drones fitted on the WB Yeats but still bungled it (if there were any drones at all). The media has been pretending the boat had no such capability. Do not pass go and remit €17 million in public money to the arms trade.

It has been explained to us elsewhere that there only exists "grainy video" of these UFOs. There is no excuse for this after spending millions on world-class fire control optics for the Beckett class ships. I want to believe, but that has to be explained.

Headline: “Housing targets at risk as Dublin apartment build costs top €600k” Fact: Assuming Dept Housing using same basis as previous years, this is an “estimate” from industry from one unnamed project, not independent, not market research, & not audited costs www.businesspost.ie/politics/hou...

Is there not one journalist in Ireland who will question Garda statements instead of uncritically reproducing them. It is not a criminal offence to pitch a tent

That purportedly "patchy" video feed of the UFOs would be PAL supplied from a £2.5 million gimbal-stabilised day/night fire control system on the Beckett class ships with the capacity to track multiple aerial targets at once, on thermal imaging, at night, even 5km away.

These protests would be more effective if the bus lanes weren't already clogged perpetually with taxis.

Did you see this (IMHO) convincing post setting out what was actually in the air at the time to be mistaken for drones www.reddit.com/r/Dublin/s/c...

The implications of this are huge if true, but you would also have to seriously question several aspects, particularly the bit where we are told there's "no air defence capability save for the machine guns of the naval vessel".

Aer Lingus pilot feared ‘retribution’ from senior airline personnel, WRC hears

I just hope there's clear video of everyone giving him a big bualadh bos, or not doing so, so we won't have the unedifying spectacle of certian political writers having to argue the point.

Nope. That just hasn't happened. The Home Secretary saying "I'd like this to be the case" is not the same as Parliament passing an Act. This is such basic stuff. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Armoured Garda convoy through Ballsbridge, it must be assumed, for Zelensky.

We do really need to remember that much of what Simon Harris has to say about the state of the nation really is awfully shallow in terms of its analysis. (He's the first Taoiseach since Albert Reynolds not to finish third level.) www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

A significant High Court ruling clarifies that corporate entities can indeed pursue a claim under the Equal Status Act if they are discriminated against due to their association with a natural person with a protected characteristic.

Some of them are also utterly blinding, and I think quite dangerous on dark roads, because the way they cycle between dark and light backgrounds can be dazzling.

And there was a huge push within the review to do the numbers properly this time. But changing them required a fall guy unless they were to acknowledge that a political decision had been made that was causing very bad long term consequences. So he attacked the CSO, which can't defend itself.

Leo started critiquing the CSO to deflect from the political decisions that they had made regarding what they had asked the ESRI to do. This became a problem for Leo with the review of the NDP which the FFers wanted. They couldn't just keep using the 2016 projections that were demonstrably wrong

As bankers say regarding when the shit hits the fan "By then, I'll be gone, you'll be gone" And when we look about us, the decision makers from that period are gone.

Lower short term population growth expectations allowed investment in housing and infrastructure to be deferred so that money could go towards electorally popular things like raising tax band thresholds The majority of NDP spending was set for 2026-2030, when FG thought they wouldn't be in power

They got the ESRI to do modeling on population projections for the NPF, and then tailored them to be extremely conservative. By 2018 we were already beating our the high growth scenario projections (as even with that, Robert Watt had his thumb on the scale reducing the possible range of growth)

I think the issue was more that with the post-bust population crash, and much higher emmigration they walked into the National Planning Framework in 2016 believing that life beyond 2020 would be closer to 2010-15 than 2005. That was in line with economic expectations, but divorced from reality

Leo Varadkar started this crap narrative in 2023 as an excuse for the housing shortage caused by the Kenny govt's post-2008 plan for a stagnant Ireland.

I think this occasion should be marked with robust criticism of the fact that Transdev decided to to route the replacement bus through the ceaseless traffic jam on the north quays instead of along the disused tram line, making it entirely 100% useless.

🏗️“David McWilliams’s characterisation of lawyers as “talkers” rather than “doers” He decries legal process & points to Chinese projects. Four bridges collapsed in China in 2024 killing 42.. In 2024 Ireland recorded its lowest-ever number of workplace fatalities” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

If you look carefully, you will notice that a great many of the subsea cables we're meant to be worrying about go straight past Wexford and up the Bristol Channel.

I can hear it now: "Lame-ass International"

Further consideration of wartime measures as a response to Ireland's housing crisis, such as conscription as a navvy, will of course not extend to such indignities as the requisitioning of private property, as in Britain during WW2. A crisis for thee, but not for me.

We warned you that self-driving cars would just create self-driving traffic jams, and here they are. The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.